MEASURES FOR THE IMPOSITION OF SURCHARGES FOR PURCHASES OF MOTORVEHICLES
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英文本源自中华人民共和国务院法制局编译, 中国法制出版社出版的《中华人民
共和国涉外法规汇编》(1991年7月版).
当发生歧意时, 应以法律法规颁布单位发布的中文原文为准.
This English document is coming from the "LAWS AND REGULATIONS OF THE
PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA GOVERNING FOREIGN-RELATED MATTERS" (1991.7)
which is compiled by the Brueau of Legislative Affairs of the State
Council of the People's Republic of China, and is published by the China
Legal System Publishing House.
In case of discrepancy, the original version in Chinese shall prevail.
Whole Document (法规全文)
MEASURES FOR THE IMPOSITION OF SURCHARGES FOR PURCHASES OF MOTOR
VEHICLES
(Promulgated by the State Council on April 2, 1985)
Article 1
Highways are infrastructure to serve the whole society. To speed up the
construction of highways so as to meet the increasing demands for highways
owing to the socioeconomic development and the rising living standards of
the people, these Measures are formulated based on the decision to impose
surcharges for purchases of motor vehicles as a special source of funds
for the construction of highways.
Article 2
Surcharges for purchases of motor vehicles are imposed nationwide and each
vehicle purchased shall be surcharged only once.
Article 3
A surcharge must be paid for all purchased motor vehicles to be assembled
and used by the purchasers themselves (not including manpowered vehicles,
animal-drawn vehicles or bicycles) upon purchase or actual use.
Article 4
The purchasers or users (including State organs and armed forces) of the
vehicles are obliged to the surcharge (hereinafter referred to as payers).
Article 5
Surcharges shall apply to purchases of the following motor vehicles:
(1) Domestically manufactured or assembled vehicles for domestic sale and
use (including those manufactured and assembled by various forms of joint
ventures and foreign-capital enterprises). These include buses, mini-
buses, general-purpose freight vehicles, cross-country vehicles, passenger
vans, two-wheel and three-wheel motorcycles, tractor trucks. semi-tractor
trucks, other transport vehicles (including delivery vans, container,
trucks, tipper lorries, tankers, lorries for transporting powdered or
particulate cargoes in bulk, cold storage and heat preservation vans,
cattle vans, mail vehicles, etc.) as well as trailers, semi-trailers and
trailers for special usage.
(2) All imported (new ones and the second-hand) vehicles as listed in the
preceding paragraph.
Article 6
The following vehicles shall be exempt from surcharges:
(1) Vehicles with fixed installations for purposes other than
transportation.
(2) Vehicles used by foreign embassies and consulates, representative
offices of the UN organizations and international financial organizations
in China.
(3) Other vehicles exempt from surcharges as approved by the Ministry of
Communications and Ministry of Finance.
Article 7
The collection of the surcharge for purchases of motor vehicles shall be
administered by the communications departments and the surcharges shall be
collected on their behalf by the units listed in these Measures.
Article 8
The surcharge for the vehicles manufactured and assembled domestically
shall be collected by the producers or assemblers; the rate of the
surcharge shall be calculated on the basis of the actual sale price. The
surcharge for vehicles assembled and used by the purchaser shall be paid
at the local communications departments and the rate be calculated on the
basis of the local market price of similar vehicles. The rate of the
surcharge for domestically manufactured and assembled vehicles is 10 per
cent.
Article 9
The surcharge for imported vehicles shall be collected by the Customs. The
rate shall be 15 per cent based upon a combined price (i.e. C.I.F. +
duties + the value added tax.)
Article 10
The payers, upon surcharge payment, shall be issued "surcharge-paid"
certificates. The form of certificates shall be devised by the Ministry of
Communications.
Article 11
Only with "surcharge-paid" certificates can the payers apply for vehicle
licence plates to the communications superintendencies or vehicle control
departments of the public security organs, which shall, in cases of
evasion of payment, order the evaders to pay the surcharges at the local
communications departments, with an additional service charge.
Article 12
Purchasers of the vehicles that are exempt from the surcharge shall apply
to the local communications departments for exemption certificates before
registration with the local communications superintendencies or public
security organs for vehicle license plates.
Article 13
The incomes from the collection of surcharges for purchases of motor
vehicles shall be deposited with the China Industrial and Commercial Bank
in a special account of the Ministry of Communications and shall be
transferred to the account by the Bank's local branches.
Article 14
The surcharges for purchases of motor vehicles shall be exempt from the
State Fund for Energy and Transportation development.
Article 15
The entire income of surcharges for purchases of motor vehicles shall be a
source of funds for the country's highway development. The funds shall be
used under the unified arrangement of the Ministry of Communications
according to relevant regulations of the State.
Article 16
The collection and transfer of the surcharges are administered and
supervised in a unified way by communications departments at various
levels. The collecting units for surcharges for purchases of motor
vehicles shall establish special account books and deposit the money
collected in the special accounts of the Ministry of Communications for
surcharge for purchase of motor vehicles at the local industrial and
commercial branch banks. They shall also fill out relevant forms and
statements and submit them to the communications departments in charge of
collecting the surcharges. The collecting units are entitled to draw 0.3
per cent of the amount collected as service charge.
Article 17
The communications departments in charge of the surcharges have the right
to supervise the collecting units with respect to the conditions of the
collection and transfer. Immediate rectification shall be required for
any failure to act upon these Measures; and fines shall be imposed on
surcharge omissions or delayed transfers.
Article 18
Payers who fail to pay surcharges according to these Measures shall make
up the payment and, in addition, be imposed according to the
circumstances, a fine up to five times or less the amount due. Forgery of
certificates shall be punished according to law.
Article 19
In cases where disputes occur between the payers and the collecting
departments, the payers shall pay first as demanded and then apply to
higher communications departments or finance departments for
reconsideration.
Article 20
Individuals and units that expose or report on cases of surcharge evasion
or certificate forgery shall be awarded.
Article 21
The Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Finance shall be
responsible for the interpretation of these Measures and the formulation
of the rules for the implementation thereof.
Article 22
These Measures shall go into effect on May 1, 1985.